I've been watching the Senate Banking Committee talk to grill the top executives from GM, Chrysler and Ford for three hours now, and I'm angry. Even our Senators are perpetuating myths about the Auto Industry and Detroit. Mark Phelan at the Detroit Free Press sums it up better than I can with his 6 Myths about the Detroit 3 article: Myth No. 1

Hang on folks 'cause we're about to have a "YouTube President" in the White House.  Yes, it's true he may now have to give up his BlackBerry, but that doesn't mean his administration won't use the media and the internet in ways that have only been imagined in politics before.Last night President-elect Barack Obama did his first televised interview since the election with Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes." And though interviews by new presidents on "60 Minutes" are not new, the way Mr. Obama has used the media to his advantage rivals that of The Great Communicator himself, the late President Ronald Reagan.

So there's a dirty little secret in my life that I've been unwilling to admit until right now. Despite being a dedicated conservative, a serious libertarian, someone who occasionally refers to "liberal" as a "four letter word," I...well...I only date Democrats. Okay, so it isn't exactly a policy as much as it is fate. Back in high school, my boyfriend was a football player who wrote for the school paper and we used to do op-eds together where he'd take one side and I'd take the other. It was cool at the time because it felt so anti-Establishment.

Once again my family is lucky. Once again we're dealing with inhalers and bad air. Once again, Southern California is being ravaged by wildfires. Hundreds of evacuees from a mobile home park only a few miles from my own home are touring the devastation via shuttle today. They are getting a look, for the first time, at exactly what happened to their homes and what little remains. The fire destroyed 477 homes in that park alone.

By now, you've probably heard that last Wednesday, the morning commuter crowds in Manhattan and a few other US cities were the targets of an elaborate prank. Volunteers distributed 1.2 million copies of a bogus edition of the New York Times dated July 4, 2009 and boasting the banner headline: "Iraq War Ends." An anti-corporate activist group called the Yes Men claimed responsibility for the hoax.

Much of the perspective provided during the campaign and reactions to the election of Barack Obama have been framed by the legacy of America's long history of blacks, whites, racism, oppression and the struggle to realize civil rights.

I have to admit, Secretary of State was not a position that came to mind when I envisioned Senator Clinton in an Obama administration. I'm not sure why either, because as the Washington Post points out Clinton is well-known and well-respected in the international community.

Loads of media types are already wondering aloud, what kind of parents the Obamas will be. For me, that question is sort of silly -- won't they continue to be the same kind of parents they've always been?

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the US, and in my post about it, I cited some alarming statistics. While it is horrifying that an average of one in six American women will be abused in her lifetime, it is even more outrageous that this rate doubles for women around the globe: 33% of women and girls are beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused, according to the United Nations Development Programme for Women (UNIFEM).

The President-Elect probably hadn't left Grant Park before the first slang terms started popping up in the Urban Dictionary. Even the Huffington Post grasped onto a concept that came into play that night--the baby boom predicted for August 2009--Obama Babies.

The revellers have long gone home after celebrating in the streets,the champgane bottles are empty and the tears of joy have dried. It's now back to reality.While some rejoiced that come January a Democrat will be Commander-in-Chief and some rejoiced that an African-American man will hold the highest, most respected position of power in the world, other gritted their teeth and swore under their breath. Not simply because they are Republicans and were disappointed that John McCain lost, but because the next President will be a black man.

By the time dusk fell on the evening of November 4th, the GOP party looked at their Reaganite ideal of a "shining city on a hill" now dust under their feet. History was made, in more ways than one.